October 31, 2008

This week i attended the Framed talk – Creating Screen Characters: From Fiction to Docos at Digital Harbourwhat makes a good character?create detail in your character.character who are failures are more interesting e.g. Sea Changewhat is your characters weakness - that is more interesting.Oz drama often takes a complex character and divides those traits up between several characters.

ABC's Australian story - shows everyone as a success.Doco film maker proposed a film about multicultural football team. The team lost against the Italians and others.The commissioning editor didn't want a film about losers.

A character carries on an internal monologue with himself - rats in the ranksFilm maker Robert connelley calls this Self-Rhetoric.You want to convey the story - what are the best characters to do that.

writing the treatment forces you to focus on what the documentary is about.don't bore your audiencea doco is the relationship between you and your subject.we are full of contradictions - as a doco filmmaker you must reveal that.